rpbooks Chapter 122 The Death Videotape, Escape
Chapter 122 The Death Videotape, Escape
"Do people have to dream?"
"I'll ride back next time."
It's the weekend. After washing up, Jiu Zhiche, who had just finished washing up, went straight to the police station.
After getting up, Tomie looked unhappy. Last night she dreamed that a black cat had scratched her face.
Mad!
From now on, I'll kill every black cat I see!
Actually, at first, she was looking for the memories in her mind; she found a small, chaotic fragment of those memories.
Suppressing her nausea and dizziness, Tomie stared intently at her memories, trying to invade them.
As a result, I fell asleep while watching it.
Then I dreamed about that dead black cat.
Thinking of this, Tomie rushed out the door.
Today she's going to kill a few more imposters to vent her anger.
"Bang!"
The door closed, the tremor seeming to travel to the ground and then to the nearby sofa, causing the corpse inside to tremble slightly. A piece of charred skin peeled off, revealing a patch of fair, delicate skin...
"Lord Jiuzhi?"
Miura Tomoka never expected that the expert Officer Yamashiro mentioned would actually be Kujiro Tetsu.
Jiuzhi Che nodded in acknowledgment: "Long time no see, Miss Miura. Time waits for no one, so I won't waste any more words. Regarding that videotape, I hope you can describe its contents in detail, and how you obtained it."
His gaze swept over Miura Tomoka without making a sound. He could see what looked like handprints on the corner of her neck, like the aura of Kayako from Ju-on. There was also another curse aura about her, somewhat different from that of Black Sadako, yet very similar.
It must be a curse from the videotape.
At this moment, Miura Tomoka hurriedly began to narrate.
"Today is the fourth day. Four days ago..."
Four days ago, Tomoka Miura was still troubled by the damaged footage of the special spiritual program she had recorded a few days earlier.
For unknown reasons, all the recordings from that episode were destroyed, and the video froze into a wavy, snowy mess.
This episode of the "Spiritual Special" will either be cancelled or replaced with another topic.
Just then, Sawaguchi Okazaki happened to pass by and heard about Miura Tomoka and the others' unfortunate experience. He mentioned, "Asakawa is currently investigating her niece's case and asked me to collect some news from a place called Izu Oshima. It seems to be related to the recently rumored seven-day death videotape. What do you think? If we get that videotape and put it on your show, we'll have a gimmick."
Miura Tomoka's heart skipped a beat; Sawaguchi was right. So she immediately went to find Asakawa Reiko.
The other person was looking for old newspapers in the archives and looked much more haggard than before.
"Sister Lingzi, there's something I'd like to discuss with you."
"Tomoka? You say it."
Reiko Asakawa looked exhausted, but she forced herself to cheer up.
"I heard you found the rumored death tape. The footage we were about to air on our show has all been corrupted, so we'd like to borrow that tape..."
"No!" Reiko Asakawa's reaction suddenly became intense. "Absolutely not!"
Seemingly realizing she had overreacted, Reiko Asakawa quickly added, "That videotape is filled with ominous signs. What if something really happens if it's released?"
But there are no ghosts in the world.
Miura Tomoka's lips moved, but she didn't say anything.
Seeing Qianchuan's appearance, she felt a strange unease welling up inside her, and a chill began to rise from the soles of her feet.
Perhaps he was frightened by her expression.
Having gained nothing, Miura Tomoka planned to go home after get off work. Actually, the director should be more worried than her, the host. Let the director figure out a solution.
"Tomoka, are you looking for a videotape?"
Suddenly, Megumi Obayashi called out to her and brought up a topic that interested her.
"Xiao Hui, how did you know?"
"I was just passing by and overheard your conversation with Asakawa. If you'd like to see them, I have some at my house."
"Really? How did you get it?"
"During a short holiday, I went to Izu Pacific Land. Asakawa asked me to go to a hotel to find a videotape, saying that her niece Tomoko and her friends had watched it before. Since I was there, I helped her out. I made an extra copy so I could keep it for myself."
As Megumi Obayashi was speaking, her phone suddenly rang. She froze, staring blankly at the phone, but didn't answer it.
"Xiaohui? What's wrong? Is it your boyfriend calling?"
"N-nothing, I probably just didn't sleep well last night."
Megumi Obayashi forced a smile, pressed the reject button, and said, "Let's go quickly."
When they arrived at Megumi Obayashi's house, her boyfriend was also there. He poured Tomoka Miura a glass of water and handed her a videotape, saying, "Here, this is it. You can play it yourself."
Miura Tomoka found it strange; putting it in the video recorder was a simple matter, so why did she have to do it herself?
However, she was about to witness the rumors. Without much thought, Miura Tomoka inserted the videotape into the machine and returned to the sofa, ready to watch it properly.
"Xiao Hui, where are you going?"
But then Megumi Obayashi suddenly stood up and said, "I'm going to the restroom."
"Um, okay."
If I remember correctly, Xiaohui's boyfriend also went to the restroom just now.
Are they really that affectionate? They even go to the bathroom together.
The videotape has started playing.
After a burst of snowflakes and some noise, the camera focused on the moon in the dim sky, which was obscured by dark clouds and not very clear.
The scene shifts, the camera focusing on a mirror. In the mirror, a long-haired woman is combing her hair, her face sometimes smiling, sometimes melancholic. Suddenly, the mirror teleports to the left, revealing an empty mirror, then returns to its original position, the woman still combing her hair...
The scene shifts to a newspaper with distorted, writhing text that is magnified, rotated, and misaligned, making it completely incomprehensible at first glance.
The man with a white cloth covering his head pointed out of the frame, while a strange noise, resembling a horn, came from the screen in waves. It sounded jarring and unsettling.
Immediately afterwards, the entire screen was filled with an eye, blinking repeatedly, with the character "贞" (zhen) printed on its pupil, giving the illusion that the eye on the television was watching you.
Finally, the scene freezes on an ancient well, surrounded by withered trees and fallen leaves scattered on the ground...
"Sizzle~~"
"Click—"
The background was all white noise. Miura Tomoka turned off the video recorder, and a strange sense of tension made her restless.
"Ring ring!"
Her phone suddenly rang.
Miura Tomoka was startled. Realizing it was a cell phone, she breathed a sigh of relief, but when she saw the caller ID displaying a string of "4444444", she swallowed hard.
"Feed?" She put the phone to her ear.
"Shh~"
"Buzz~ Rustle~"
On the other end of the phone, there was only a low-frequency electrical sound, mixed with a buzzing noise that caused tinnitus. There seemed to be human voices, but they were all breathy and hissing sounds, and it was impossible to hear them clearly.
"hiss----"
The hollow, inhuman scream startled Tomoka Miura so much that she threw her phone away.
She trembled violently several times, and without thinking of anything else, she ran outside without even picking up her phone...
After listening quietly, Jiu Zhiche still didn't understand how this videotape curse, which was almost identical to the original story, came about. Sadako and Black Sadako didn't die, nor did they merge together.
Surely she couldn't be from the future like Kayako from Ju-on, could she?
"Sister Rou, where is that videotape now?"
Jiuzhiche looked at Shanchengrou beside him.
"Found at Da Lin Hui's house, it's now kept in the evidence room. Jiu Zhi, you don't want to see it, do you?"
Shancheng Rou frowned slightly, looking somewhat disapproving.